{"id":583739,"date":"2026-04-05T12:03:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T12:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/583739\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T12:03:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T12:03:08","slug":"mha-presses-for-action-on-promised-long-term-care-beds-for-south-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/583739\/","title":{"rendered":"MHA Presses for Action on Promised Long-Term Care Beds for South Coast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/elvis-loveless.jpg\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"MHA Presses for Action on Promised Long-Term Care Beds for South Coast\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Elvis Loveless (VOCM News)<\/p>\n<p>A former Liberal cabinet minister hopes that the PC government follows through on a health care commitment that his administration made last year on the south coast.<\/p>\n<p>Elvis Loveless, who represents Fortune Bay-Cape La Hune, met with the health minister early in the new year to press upon her the need for an extension of the medical centre in Harbour Breton. Loveless hopes Premier Tony Wakeham continues with their plans for a 10-bed extension onto the centre.<\/p>\n<p>He says just because people live in isolated communities doesn\u2019t mean that they should have less in terms of health care.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2026to be used mostly as long-term care accommodations and acute care,\u201d says Loveless. \u201cI\u2019m hoping that they move ahead with that because they have said that we need more long-term care beds. It\u2019s a very important announcement for that whole region,\u201d says the MHA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Elvis Loveless (VOCM News) A former Liberal cabinet minister hopes that the PC government follows through on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":583740,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[49,48,84,392],"class_list":["post-583739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-health","tag-healthcare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=583739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583739\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/583740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=583739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=583739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=583739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}